Autographic register



' A. w. MEIZNER. AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED'JULY 8,1919.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

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STAPLE AND FANCY N n uoo oo GROCERIES A. W. METZNER.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8.1919.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

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machine is used for billing UNITED STATES PATENT'IOFFI'CE.

ALBERT .w. 'mnrznm, or DAYTON, OHIO, Assren'oa :60 mar. STANDARD REGISTER comm, or DAYTON, 01:10, A conromrron or emo.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18. 1921.

To all whom it may concern: g

Be .it known that I, ALBERT W. METZNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part, of this specification.

My invention relates to autographic registers wherein duplicate strips are fed over atablet plate and like impressions made upon each strip by the operator writing on the top strip, and'carbon paper transferring his written matter to the sheets beneath.

In machines of this type,-it is not always desirable that the strips should be fed out in equal amounts, at'every operation of the machine. ,One instance of this is where the goods to customers, where the owner desires some sort of shipping label to 0 on the goods. In such a case,it.can' re'a ily be observed that the use of a special strip of paperin connection with the regular strips,- together with a different amount of feed for the special strip, would provide a device'whichcould be used for duplicating merely the address portion of the regularstrips on the special strip.

Another instance where this difiet ent feed would be of value is for the advam ing of. a summary strip in recording autographic registers, and various other uses might sug-- gest themselves, in connection with auto gra hic registers and the like, wherein the .fee mg of one of a series of strips is made at a different rate from the others, although all the strips receive a, similar'autographic im rint.

t is also a necessity to provide some transfer means which will serve to prevent the s ecial strips of paper: from receiving all 0 theimpressions made on the regular full length sections,-'because otherwise the device 'would be of no value for .some pur- .poses.

It is the object of my invention to provide a feed for autographic register paper this object 1 accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed. a

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a detail perspective of the feeding mechanism.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the regular and special strips in a billing machine.

Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the mu-- tilated one of the feeding sprockets.

Fig. 4 is a perspective of a modified form of the device.

Fig. 5 is a detail rear elevation of the feed devlce.

The paper employed in the machine where V billing machines are used comprises the usual strips A and the special stri B. The special strip B is madeup in the orm preferably of headings along with thespaces for receiving the addresses of the consi ees, omitting the balance of the spaces, prlnting ,or what not that appear on the remaining strips. When strip B is issued from. the

this strip shall issue with each regular sized section of strip A, thereby providing, with which is to be consigned.

"machine it is intended that one section of Since a sprocket feed is employed in the I becomes apparent that either theperforations for strip B or the number of; pinson device chosen to illustrate my invention, it I the feeding sprockets or'bo'th must be modi+ fi ed so far as this strip isconcerned. The feeding device comprises preferably the rotary members 1 and 2 on the shaft 3, of which the member '1 is of the ordinary type to be found in sprocket feed registers, and is equipped with the usualuniformly spaced, successive teeth 4. The member 2 is mutilated, in that it has the sprocket teeth re-' B has marginal perforations 7 along one side only, and this stripis reduced in width,

compared to the strip A.

In another form of the device, the normal length paper C has the marginal perforations 6", along one side thereof to engage the complete sprocket, while the special strip B is the same as before and engages the mutilated sprocket only (see Figs. 4 and 5).

It can readily be observed that when the strips are set over the feeding sprockets, with the strips "A in mesh with teeth on both sprockets, andthe strip B with its perforations in mesh with those on the mutilated sprocket only, that the result of one rotation of the sprockets will be to .feed the strips A out of the register in one full sized section, and that the special strip will only feed an amount determined by the number of sprocket pins left upon the mutilated sprocket.

As the pins on one side are sufiicient to carry the strips A out of the machine, the machine can be relied upon to perform its normal work. The strip B, however, is moved forward only a definitely limited amount, which will, of course, be made to correspond with the amount of' space necessary to allow for each bill head. Where the strips'A are used, there is a partial engagement by the mutilated sprocket, this not being true for the strip G (Figs. 4 and 5). But

the chief function pf the mutilated sprocket in the case of full length strips is topreserve or readjust alinement, and its use can be dispensed with as far as the normal length strips are concerned, as has been done in the device shown in Figs. 4 and 5, because so far as feeding is concerned it is not necessary. Also the device of this modified nature is better from the point of View of chance tearing of the normal length strips when they are suddenly engaged by the mutilated sprocket in the first described structure, while in the act of being fed by the complete sprocket.

In order to illustrate the means preferably adopted by me to prevent the registrations made upon the full length sections from being transferred in tote to the special strip, I have shown in outline the parts of aria-autographic register. There is thus the casi-f g'jlO and the usual tablet p1ate11,which is mounted in any desired manner in the casing. The shaft 3 for the two sprocket members is mounted in the frame in any desired manner, and alongside of the tablet plate is the usual box 12 for carbon paper strips 13.

It is possible for me to supply special carbon paper for use in connectionwith the above described .machine, although this would i mean a departure from standard practice. Thus in a machine employing two strips with full length sections and two special strips of paper having smaller sections, the carbon paper roll would have to have one full width and two half width pieces of carbon paper rolled together for installation in the carbon paper box. If there was but one special length piece, then but one special width carbon paper would have to be provided.

I am also able to make suitable provision for this feature by using in addition to the usual tablet plate 11 an additional plate or shield 14, which is made of thin metal preferably, and is merely placed in between the carbon paper and the special strip, at the point where no registrations are to be transferred. Sufficient support for the shield plate is provided by the sides of the machine casing, and no special means of holding it in place are considered necessary.

While I have above referred to one full sized sheet and one special sheet, it is not to be understood that I thereby limit myself in any way, since the number of regular and the number of special strips has nothing to do with the invention herein.

In some instances, in order to provide for a backlash preventer for the strips engaged by the mutilated sprocket, I have found it desirable and ractical to mount on the casing of the mac ine a spring fork 9 which straddles the mutilated sprocket and holds the special strip steady when the pins 5 are just entering or just leaving the perforations of the strip.

So far as I am advised, I do not know of any instance in which'there are strips of different sizes fed out of an autographic register at the same feeding operation, nor am I aware of any instance where the same feeding device has been employed for simultaneously feeding two strips of paper an unequal distance over a tablet plate in an autographic register.

Both these functions are accomplished by the mechanism I have now described, and furthermore the feeding devices have the further characteristic of retaining or automatically adjusting the various strips of paper in perfect alinement with each other.

It has not been thought necessary to describe in detail nor to show in the drawings a complete autographic register since the frame or casing, the means for installing the paper, the tablet plate, feeding orifice, tearing blade, operating handle and the like are all familiar in the art, and may be varied in detail as desired iniconnection with my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as .new and desire to secure by LetteI's Patent, is:

1. In an autographic register, a pair of pin bearing rotary bodies for feeding a plurality of marginally perforated strips of one margin out of pin engagement when freed from engagement with the limited number of pins.

2. In an autographic register, a pair of interconnected and simultaneously rotated pin bearing bodies for feeding a plurality of strips of marginally perforated paper in alinement with each other, both of said bodies being adapted to engage some of the strips, and one of the said bodies being the sole engaging member for one of the strips, said one of the pin bearing bodies having'a portion of its periphery free of pins, and the remaining pins thereon being alined and equally spaced to the pins on the other body.

3. In an autographic register, a feeding device for perforated paper comprising a pair of interconnected sprocket elements, means for rotating them simultaneously, one of said elements having equally interspaced teeth, and the other having similarly spaced teeth; covering part of its periphery only, for the purpose described.

4.-In an autographic register having strips of paper, and having some strips perforated on one edge and some on the other, rotating pin bearing'bodies for engaging said perforations interconnected with eachother, and

I connection with said feeding bearmg egually spaced pins, but said pins covering ifi'erent amounts of space 'on the said rotating bodies.

5. In an autograp'hic register, a feeding device for moving a plurality of film's of paper over a writing surface, and then issuing them from the machine, and means in device for feeding difi'erent sized sectlons simultaneously, and means for blocking off the transfer of selected portions of the imprints on the larger sized sections from the smaller sections.

6. In an autographlc reg1ster,a feeding device for moving a plurality of films of paper v on the larger sized sections to selected imprints for the smaller sections, comprising a shield mounted over the wr1t1ng surface to prevent the operation of the usual carbon Q paper.

7. In an autographic register, a feeding device for perforated paper comprising a pairof interconnected sprocket elements means for rota-ting'them simultaneously, one of said elements, having equally interspaced teeth, and the other having similarly spaced teeth, covering part of its periphery only, and means for preventing slippage of paper when freed from engagement with the element having teeth on a part only of its periphery. I

'8. In an autographic register, a feeding device for perforated paper comprising a pair: of interconnected sprocket elements, means for rotating. them simultaneously, one of said elements having equally interspaced teeth and the other having similarly spaced teeth covering part of its periphery only, but alined with the corresponding teeth on the other element, for the purpose de-v scribed.

ALBERT W. METZNER. 

